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1.Various shots Kristen Stewart on red carpet

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart, director – on showing her short film in Cannes:

"Oh my God, I'm like tripping out. It's crazy. I mean honestly, I think like Thierry (Fremaux, festival director), like he's being nice to me or something. He's just like, 'OK you can show your little movie here.' I'm like, 'Thank you!' Yeah, no, I've been coming here for a bit so I think they're just like yeah, sure, you can show your little film, which I'm very appreciate of."

3. Various shots Kristen Stewart photoshoot

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart, director – on making her first short film:

"It took me so long to make a short film, like, I thought that I was going to be the youngest director. I was working with Jodie Foster on 'Panic Room' and I was like, 'I'm going to direct. I'm going to be the youngest director that like exists.' And it turns out that it's just, for me, this process is like it's slow. It's really slow. But I told her I was doing this short and she was like, 'Great! Finally! What took you so long?' I was like, 'I don't know, I was finding the right thing and writing it and putting it together. And I don't know, I work with like such incredible people that make, that fill me with, you know, they have like a key and they unlock things. I don't know if I can do that,' you know what I mean? Like a lot of self-doubt definitely keeps you from things. But then she was like, 'Dude, the first thing you're going to realize is that you have nothing to learn.' And every day on set I would go to work like so, not nervous, but I would be anticipating this was going to be the day that someone comes and asks me a question and I don't have the answer and it just never happened. Instead it was just like how many more questions can we ask each other? Like it was the most fun I've ever had doing anything and yeah it just made itself. It literally just sort of went 'boom' and I was like 'wow.' I mean we worked our asses off but at the end of it I was just like, I look at it and it's its own thing and it's like I'm so proud of it. It's not even like I'm proud of myself, I'm proud of it."

5. Tilt up Kristen Stewart posing for photographs

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart, director – on the theme of her movie:

"You think like an actor making their first thing it's usually like people talking to each other, like talking head movie thing, which I would love to do too. But this was more about externalizing a very internal feeling that you don't really talk about and I think we kind of nailed that in the first part. The first part is basically like this really crazy aggrandized pain that this guy is just like viscerally, very esoterically experiencing, like nobody has ever been in that much pain, which is always how you feel when you're super sad. What you don't realize when you're trudging through that water, like you feel like you're so like alone in that, you step outside of it and you realize like, dude, everyone is looking at you like you're just kind of like pathetic, you're just sad and I get it and we all have been there. But when you're in it you actually feel like you can't participate like in life."

7. Various shots Kristen Stewart photoshoot

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart, director:

"I am so sensitive it drives me crazy. Like it just, yeah. It's funny (that) the first movie I wanted to make was basically just… it's a movie about somebody who is like, 'You don't get it! It's horrible!' And I do realize that everyone goes through that but I… yeah, I'm kind of a pussy."

9. Medium shot Kristen Stewart photoshoot

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart, director – on future plans:

"I mean I love acting too though. Like I don't want to trade one for the other, but acting in movies is so time consuming that I need to sort of be like, 'no.' I need to sort of allow myself to not be greedy or something. Like I always get nervous. I'm like, 'Oh wait, let me read absolutely everything because what if there's something that I really want' and then all you end up doing is acting in movies. So there's this one thing I want to adapt, I want to expand this short into a longer thing and I have one other short that I want to do. So right now that's what I'm focused on."

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KRISTEN STEWART: "I AM SO SENSITIVE IT DRIVES ME CRAZY"

Kristen Stewart's directing ambitions go all the way back to when she was an 11-year-old performing in the 2002 David Fincher thriller "Panic Room."

"I was working with Jodie Foster and I was like, 'I'm going to direct. I'm going to be the youngest director that like exists,'" Stewart recalled in an interview at the Cannes Film Festival.

It took longer than Stewart expected, but she has now made a short film titled "Come Swim" that, after debuting at Sundance, she has brought to Cannes.

It announces her filmmaking ambitions and opens a new chapter in the fast-moving career of the 27-year-old actress.

Stewart is already developing several other projects and plans to turn "Come Swim" into a feature-length film.

When she told Foster she was finally making something, Stewart says, "She was like, 'Dude, the first thing you're going to realize is that you have nothing to learn."

It's a 17-minute metaphorical rendering of a feeling, of the overwhelming oppression of heartbreak and grief.

A man is submerged, literally, by water everywhere.

Stewart describes the film as about "aggrandized pain" and says its imagery has haunted her for four years.

"You don't realize when you're trudging through that water, you feel so alone," Stewart says on a balcony overlooking the Cannes coastline. "We've all been there. But when you're in it, you feel like you can't participate in life."

In many ways, "Come Swim" reflects something essential about Stewart: she is hyper alert to her surroundings and her emotions.

It's a quality that has probably helped make her, in the eyes of many (particularly the French, who made her the first American actress to win a Cesar award for the Cannes entry "The Clouds of Sils Maria") a performer of twitchy, alive sensitivity.

"I am so sensitive it drives me crazy," says Stewart. "It's funny (that) the first movie I wanted to make was basically just a movie about somebody who is like, 'You don't get it! It's horrible!'"

Cannes has been an especially meaningful place for Stewart, having come here with her two Olivier Assayas collaborations, "Personal Shopper" and "Clouds of Sils Maria," and the Jack Kerouac adaptation "On the Road."

Still, coming to Cannes as a director is what most filmmakers dream of.

Right now, she's trying to carve our more time for directing — a challenge for a performer drawn to independent productions.

"I mean I love acting too, though. Like I don't want to trade one for the other. But acting in movies is so time consuming that I need to sort of be like, 'No.' I need to sort of allow myself to not be greedy or something," says Stewart.

Making "Come Swim," she says, is the most fun she's had on a set.

"I look at it and it's its own thing and it's like, 'I'm so proud of it,'" says Stewart. "It's not even like I'm proud of myself. I'm proud of it."

"I play somebody who is servicing another person in a way to her is very mundane. My experience of people that work in fashion has always been - there's always two sides to the coin. It's either people that really love it, and the artistry of it, and the beauty and the aesthetic, you know it informs their lives. It's not just a job, it's their art form. I love those people. I don't make clothes, but I really admire them. And then there are those who are trying to win a popularity contest, you know, just want to be special. That to me is empty and kind of starkly strange, and my character feels sort of similarly."

(Reporter: What do you think of the attention that you've been getting on the statements you've made on who you choose to love?)

Kristen Stewart: "What do I think of what people think about that? I'm glad that's it's gotten attention. It matters. It's important."

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8. Olivier Assayas poses with Kristen Stewart

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10. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart/Actress, on working with Olivier Assayas:

"It's the second time I've worked with this director, and we really found a kinship - sort of a wordless one. There's just a sort of intrinsic understanding of similarity and our love of certain processes. We approach the job the same way and that means you can just take complex things and really go far with them without too much concern for the results. He's really a risk taker and I think he's just a brilliant, brilliant mind. I would do anything for him, so I'm stoked for people to see it."

11. Olivier Assayas talking to reporter

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Olivier Assayas/Director: on Kristen Stewart:

"I think Kristen in her own way is unique - I worked with a lot of great actresses and actors. What is very special about Kristen is that she is both extremely intuitive and she has the kind of like animal-like quality in terms of relationship with the camera. It's very physical. And at the same time she is so smart, she is so - she spent her life on film sets. She has a very sophisticated reflection on what she does. Usually it's one or the other. It's very rarely both. I think she combines the best qualities that an actress can have, at least in terms of working with me."

13. Olivier Assayas poses with Kristen Stewart

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KRISTEN STEWART FEELS ATTENTION TO 'WHO SHE CHOOSES TO LOVE' IS A GOOD THING

Now that the normally private Kristen Stewart has opened up on who she chooses to love, she's been positive on the interest it's been getting.

The actress spoke briefly on that topic and her thoughts on personal shoppers at a special screening of her new film, "Personal Shopper" Thursday (9 MARCH) in New York.

"I play somebody who is servicing another person in a way to her is very mundane. My experience of people that work in fashion has always been - there's always two sides to the coin. It's either people that really love it, and the artistry of it, and the beauty and the aesthetic, you know it informs their lives. It's not just a job, it's there art form. I love those people. I don't make clothes, but I really admire them," Stewart said.

What about the others?

"There are those who are trying to win popularity contest, you know, just want to be special. That to me is empty and kind of starkly strange, and my character feels sort of similarly," Stewart said.

She then addressed the media interest on her sexuality.

"What do I think of what people think about that? I'm glad that's it's gotten attention. It matters. It's important," Stewart said.

Stewart has previously revealed that she had a same-sex relationship, and recently joked about it while hosting an episode of Saturday Night Live.

In the movie, Stewart plays an artist who takes a job as a personal shopper while coping with the recent death of twin brother, who she remains obsessed with contacting in the afterlife. She was directed by Olivier Assayas, who she worked with previously in "Clouds of Sils Maria."

She talked about their working relationship:

"It's the second time I've worked with this director, and we really found a kinship - sort of a wordless one. There's just a sort of intrinsic understanding of similarity and our love of certain processes. We approach the job the same way and that means you can just take complex things and really go far with them without too much concern for the results. He's really a risk taker and I think he's just a brilliant, brilliant mind. I would do anything for him, so I'm stoked for people to see it."

As for Assayas, he finds a magical quality with Stewart.

"I think Kristen in her own way is unique - I worked with a lot of great actresses and actors. What is very special about Kristen is that she is both extremely intuitive and she has the kind of like animal-like quality in terms of relationship with the camera. It's very physical. And at the same time she is so smart, she is so - she spent her life on film sets. She has a very sophisticated reflection on what she does. Usually it's one or the other. It's very rarely both. I think she combines the best qualities that an actress can have, at least in terms of working with me," Assayas said.

Kristen Stewart has become known for her bold fashion choices on the red carpet, but the 26-year-old brand ambassador for Chanel says her relationship with the fashion industry is a complicated one.

"You look at people attracted to that world - it's either people that are kind of compulsive artists that just want to make things pretty and want to uncover buried aspects of people's personalities with the right garment or look. Or it's people that just want to be on the top of the heap and win the popularity contest and just be around that. And sort of it's this very like empty desire. And so I've been adverse to that. I've definitely been like, 'Oh I recognize that' and been like 'I hate that! Fashion is so full of it!' And it's not always, but yeah. And also to think that you are entitled to those things you have to be somewhat self-aggrandizing. You have to be, 'Oh no I deserve to look like that. It really matters.' It's like, that's odd. It's like should that matter? Should that really be what we're focusing on? But then at the same time you shouldn't feel bad about appreciating beautiful things. So it is this weird thing that you have to take a certain vanity out of it and then I can appreciate it," said Stewart.

Her recent film "Personal Shopper" addresses similar concerns.

"The look that (the film) takes into the fashion world is interesting because I think it shows dueling attractions - one of them being superficial and the other being art and beauty. But you know, yeah, there's a lot of self-hate regarding that for my character personally," she said.

Directed by Olivier Assayas, "Personal Shopper" stars Stewart as a fashion assistant. It follows her acclaimed turn as the personal assistant to a famous actress in Assayas' earlier film, "Clouds of Sils Maria."

"This movie is pretty much about, you know, of course our ambivalence towards specifically the world we live in, the very materialistic world we live in. Ambivalence in the sense that we see what's wrong about it. We see why there is so much of it that we don't want to be part of. But simultaneously, there is something that's also specifically, if we're talking about the fashion industry, there is something that deals with beauty, something anybody can very simply relate to. And beauty is an important part of our lives," Assayas said.

Part psychological thriller, part supernatural mystery, "Personal Shopper" seems to offer more questions than answers. Stewart loved delving into the film's murky message.

"As much as we all came to the table with our eyes open and with a lot of questions, everyone was really, really, really eager to answer those questions ourselves. It's funny, you start a movie and you look at the DP or the operator, like the sound mixer that has been around just forever, and you go like, 'What the hell is this?' But it's not like, 'Why are we here? What are we doing?' It's more like, 'What is this? What did you think? What's that last line? What is the question? What is the answer?' So yeah, like I was down for that," she said.

"As much as we all came to the table with our eyes open and with a lot of questions, everyone was really, really, really eager to answer those questions ourselves. It's funny, you start a movie and you look at the DP or the operator, like the sound mixer that has been around just forever, and you go like, 'What the hell is this?' But it's not like, 'Why are we here? What are we doing?' It's more like, 'What is this? What did you think? What's that last line? What is the question? What is the answer?' So yeah, like I was down for that."

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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Olivier Assayas, director:

"This movie is pretty much about, you know, of course our ambivalence towards specifically the world we live in, the very materialistic world we live in. Ambivalence in the sense that we see what's wrong about it. We see why there is so much of it that we don't want to be part of. But simultaneously, there is something that's also specifically, if we're talking about the fashion industry, there is something that deals with beauty, something anybody can very simply relate to. And beauty is an important part of our lives."

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6. STILL: Kristen Stewart seen at the Chanel dinner to celebrate new fragrance

8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart, actress - on what the film is saying about fashion:

"The look that it takes into the fashion world is interesting because I think it shows dueling attractions - one of them being superficial and the other being art and beauty. But you know, yeah, there's a lot of self-hate regarding that for my character personally."

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9. Kristen Stewart attends "An Evening With Kristen Stewart" during the 54th New York Film Festival

"You look at people attracted to that world - it's either people that are kind of compulsive artists that just want to make things pretty and want to uncover buried aspects of people's personalities with the right garment or look. Or it's people that just want to be on the top of the heap and win the popularity contest and just be around that. And sort of it's this very like empty desire. And so I've been adverse to that. I've definitely been like, 'Oh I recognize that' and been like 'I hate that! Fashion is just so full of it!' And it's not always, but yeah. And also I think even to think that you are entitled to those things you have to be somewhat self-aggrandizing. You have to be, 'Oh no, I deserve to look like that. It really matters.' It's like, that's odd. It's like should that matter? Should that really be what we're focusing on? But then at the same time you shouldn't feel bad about appreciating beautiful things. So it is this weird thing that you have to take a certain vanity out of it and then I can appreciate it."

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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart, actress:

"It makes me so happy because, like being somebody who had been asked that question just over and over and over and over. I felt this huge responsibility like one that I was really genuinely worried about if I wasn't able to say one way or the other, then was I sort of like forsaking a side. Are people are going to look at me and go you're not setting an example. It's like no that's not mine. Like I - and the fact that you don't have to now is like so much more truthful."

"Right, I feel like no one really should feel the need to define themselves. I believe you do love a soul and not a gender. And if that soul happens to always be in a male body, then I guess you like men. But I love who I love. And that's OK."

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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart, actress:

"And it's like wait, so in order to stay relevant and authentic, do I have to come out? Because I don't know if that's true and now if you were to have this conversation with someone like in high school, they'd probably like roll their eyes and go, why are you complicating everything so much. Like just sort of do what you want to do. It's like man I was gunning for that for a long time. So thank you. So like, God - kids, like lead the way - you know, it's really nice."

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8. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart, actress:

"Unless you have those answers, you start sort of pulling things out of the hat that don't really apply to you. So I've been lucky enough to kind of keep that at bay until I was able to sort of stand up and do - and have an interaction with the public or have an interaction with my peers about identity or whatever. But at the same time, it's not for me - it's like really not that complicated of an issue - whereas for some of my friends and some people that we portray in this movie it really is a lot harder. You know, I mean like just much more ambiguous. There are things that he or she or they or you know, whether or not you like girls or boys doesn't even begin to describe who you are on the inside - and for that vocabulary to be the only way that we can describe the - I just feel like we don't even have the words to describe the complexities of identity right now."

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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart, actress:

Reporter: "How much of that energy and spirit are you putting into your feature directorial debut that you're you're working on now?"

"Oh man so much of it. So much of that spirit is completely about finding new - finding a new language. And like really - understanding that your word house, so to speak, is constructed by you. And you can also have a million definitions of any word you want. Like they are open for interpretation. Yeah. So like words as solace - because they really can be used as weapons or really like more saviors. So yeah I can't - I can't wait to make the movie. By the way I like literally just now am finishing the first draft of that right now. So hopefully - and I have never really talked about it. So like the writer is one of my dear friends now I'm gonna tell her to Google this."

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KRISTEN STEWART FELT 'HUGE RESPONSIBILITY' TO DEFINE HER SEXUALITY

Kristen Stewart says she felt a "huge responsibility" to define her sexuality after finding fame in the "Twilight" movie franchise.

And the 29-year-old actress says she's glad that today's young stars aren't being pushed to label themselves - whether bisexual, gay or heterosexual.

"It makes me so happy because I like being somebody who had been asked that question just over and over and over and over. I felt this huge responsibility like one that I was really genuinely worried about if I wasn't able to say one way or the other, then was I sort of like forsaking a side. Are people are going to look at me and go you're not setting an example. It's like no that's not mine. Like I - and the fact that you don't have to now is like so much more truthful," Stewart said.

Stewart stars alongside Laura Dern in "J.T. LeRoy," a bio-pic about a young woman named Samantha Knoop who pretends to be a celebrated male author, but who is actually her sister-in-law.

Knoop identifies as nonbinary, and Stewart celebrates that decision along with statements from younger Hollywood stars like Sophie Turner, who have refused to label their sexuality.

"And it's like wait, so in order to stay relevant and authentic, do I have to come out? Because I don't know if that's true and now if you were to have this conversation with someone like in high school, they'd probably like roll their eyes and go, why are you complicating everything so much," she said. "Like just sort of do what you want to do. It's like man I was gunning for that for a long time. So thank you. So like, God - kids, like lead the way - you know, it's really nice."

Stewart says contemporary culture is still struggling to define fluid gender and sexuality: "I just feel like we don't even have the words to describe the complexities of identity right now."

Stewart says she'll be putting that spirit into her feature film directorial debut, an adaptation of the memoir of a bisexual swimmer titled "Chronology of Water."

"So much of that spirit is completely about finding new -- finding a new language. And like really -- understanding that your word house, so to speak, is constructed by you," she said. "And you can also have a million definitions of any word you want. Like they are open for interpretation. Yeah. So like words as solace - because they really can be used as weapons or really like more saviors. So yeah I can't - I can't wait to make the movie. By the way I like literally just now am finishing the first draft of that right now. So hopefully -- and I have never really talked about it. So like the writer is one of my dear friends now I'm gonna tell her to Google this."

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3. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart, actress - on why she decided to take on Donald Trump and be so open about her sexuality while hosting "Saturday Night Live":

"No, it was just like, we just wanted to make the monologue funny and that's kind of what was like going on. I had been considering doing it for a number of years. I was just so intimidated for so long. It really is like, it's being a part of the most epic trust fall game that you've ever been a part of and I don't know, I just sort of was like ready to ... I just couldn't say no anymore. I was like 'Yeah, I want to be a part of that. I don't want to like miss out on that.' So even if I completely mess it up, it's like 'Oh at least I did it."

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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart, actress - on social media:

"No, there was no negative twist on that whatsoever. It was literally just ... it's a pretty objective observation. We've not always had the access to each other that we have now. And yeah, so it's just the immediacy of it, like the clipped nature of it. The fact that you aren't in front of the person when they say things and they're not in front of you when you do. So it's open for massive misinterpretation and projection. Then at the same time, you can really concisely communicate with someone. And what I meant by it's a 'new language' is it's all kind of hard to grasp. Like sometimes you look at a text and you go, 'Oh, my god! They hate me.' And they didn't mean that at all. You know what I mean? So yeah, just that."

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STEWART TALKS 'SNL' GIG AND TECHNOLOGY

The formerly private star Kristen Stewart has become more open about her personal life and sexuality.

In July, she revealed for the first time that she had an on-again, off-again girlfriend, followed most recently by her first hosting gig on "Saturday Night Live," when she joked in a swipe at Republican President Donald Trump, "I'm, like, so gay, dude."

So why did she decide to open up on national television?

"We just wanted to make the monologue funny and that's kind of what was like going on," she explained.

Stewart went on to explain how "SNL" had always been a dream job for her.

"I had been considering doing it for a number of years. I was just so intimidated for so long. It really is like it's being a part of the most epic trust fall game that you've ever been a part of and I don't know, I just sort of was like ready to ... I just couldn't say no anymore. I was like 'yeah, I want to be a part of that. I don't want to like miss out on that.' So even if I completely mess it up, it's like 'oh at least I did it,'" she said.

In her latest indie drama, "Personal Shopper," Stewart stars as a fashion assistant who can also communicate with the dead. She becomes entwined with a mysterious stranger, who may or may not be a ghost, over text messaging.

Stewart discussed the murkiness of modern communication via messages, emojis and social media.

"We've not always had the access to each other that we have now. And yeah, so it's just the immediacy of it, like the clipped nature of it. The fact that you aren't in front of the person when they say things and they're not in front of you when you do. So it's open for misinterpretation and projection. Then at the same time, you can really concisely communicate with someone. And what I meant by it's a 'new language' is it's all kind of hard to grasp. Like sometimes you look at a text and you go, 'Oh my god! They hate me.' And they didn't mean that at all. You know what I mean?" she said.

"Personal Shopper" is directed by Olivier Assayas and opens in U.S. theaters on March 10.

The A-lister was joined on the red carpet by her co-stars Anthony Mackie, Zazie Beetz, Margaret Qualley, Jack O'Connell, and director Benedict Andrews.

Also in attendance, models Barbara Palvin and Sara Sampaio.

"Seberg" dramatizes how the F.B.I.'s COINTELPRO surveillance program targeted New Wave movie star Jean Seberg (Stewart) after she provided financial support to civil rights groups, including the Black Panther Party.

An internal FBI memo detailed how the agency set out to "neutralize" Seberg by leaking information about her political affiliations and rumors about her pregnancy, aware that its actions would likely "cause her embarrassment and serve to cheapen her image with the general public."

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5. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Dern, actress - on the heart of the story of "J.T. Leroy":

"I think it's about identity and comfort in one's own skin and trying to find our way and navigating through our lives to find our way to ourselves. I think that's the deepest part of the movie and how these two people helped each other move toward or away from who they were is the fascinating journey in various ways, but on the surface it's seemingly it's 'Oh my god, how did they pull this off? Is this a hoax?' But the larger question is why do people create other personalities in order to survive?"

"Well we actually met doing a really long press day for a movie that we were in together, but we didn't share any scenes. So, we had this like accelerated introduction of like 'Oh well how do you, how do you present? How do you talk about the most important thing you, like your work?' and you're like sometimes you sit next to other actors and it is not like the most explorative experience. It's more like 'I know what I want to say, and we're done there.' She was like digging and I went 'Oh man.' We just knew each other instantly. And I think in making this movie the two characters that we portray are tied in a way that is like painful but really vital to them in that time and for making this movie I felt genuinely she's the only person who I could have done it with."

Dern: "Same."

Stewart: "And it was like a bit of a dire thing to make the movie. It's like raises a lot of weird questions and we had to tell each other everything about one another and. So yeah thank god it was her."

"Well I'll share the moment with Kristen because we both are fierce in our longing to tell stories about the other and to fight for representation both in front of and behind the camera and tell narratives that unfortunately have tragically not been seen before. So, I think speaking for myself Laura versus for the Academy I can just say that I think it's a really exciting time that there are so many places to tell these stories that are so desperately needed. And filmmakers can have their voice and their pure expression of it, because of so many opportunities to make films right now. And with that said I think it is a continued conversation because the business is changing and filmgoing experience is changing and therefore honoring excellence in film may also have to look toward the future to see what that's going to look like as filmmakers are making films in all different kinds of ways now. So, I think it will be a continual conversation for all the Guilds, for the Academy, BAFTA, everybody. And I think it's really important as people who love making independent films to have them be found and to support cinema forever and so it's a really interesting time to learn about all of this."

Laura Dern thinks it's an interesting time in the filmmaking community.

The actress, who's also a motion-picture academy governor, said that it's important to continue the discussion as to what films are eligible for considered for the Academy Award submission in the light of new rule changes by the Academy.

The Academy's board of governors announced early Wednesday a handful of changes passed during its annual April rules meeting. The biggest news was what the 54-person board elected not to alter: the one-week theatrical release required for an Oscar nomination.

The new tweaked rules will not limit the eligibility of Netflix films at the Academy Awards.

"Speaking for myself Laura versus for the Academy I can just say that I think it's a really exciting time that there are so many places to tell these stories that are so desperately needed. And filmmakers can have their voice and their pure expression of it, because of so many opportunities to make films right now," she said at the premiere of her new film "J.T. Leroy" in Los Angeles Thursday (24 April 2019).

"I think it is a continued conversation because the business is changing and filmgoing experience is changing and therefore honoring excellence in film may also have to look toward the future to see what that's going to look like. Because filmmakers are making films in all different kinds of ways now. So, I think it will be a continual conversation for all the Guilds, for the Academy, BAFTA, everybody. And I think it's really important as people who love making independent films to have them be found and to support cinema forever and so it's a really interesting time to learn about all of this."

The film is a biographical drama based on Savanna Knoop's book about her six years masquerading as writer Laura Albert's literary persona JT LeRoy.

Kristen Stewart, who takes the role of Knoop in the film, said that acting opposite Dern was a boon.

"We actually met doing a really long press day for a movie that we were in together, but we didn't share any scenes. So, we had this like accelerated introduction of like 'Oh well how do you, how do you present? How do you talk about the most important things you, like your work?'" said Stewart

"She was like digging and I went 'Oh man.' We just knew each other instantly. And I think in making this movie the two characters that we portray are tied in a way that is like painful but really vital to them in that time and for making this movie I felt genuinely she's the only person who I could have done it with."

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Kristen Stewart was greeted by crowds of screaming fans as she arrived at the Venice International Film Festival Friday (30 AUGUST 2019).

She's here to promote new political thriller "Seberg," which is showing out of competition.

The film dramatizes how the F.B.I.'s COINTELPRO surveillance program targeted New Wave movie star Jean Seberg (Stewart) after she provided financial support to civil rights groups, including the Black Panther Party.

An internal FBI memo detailed how the agency set out to "neutralize" Seberg by leaking information about her political affiliations and rumors about her pregnancy, aware that its actions would likely "cause her embarrassment and serve to cheapen her image with the general public."

Directed by Benedict Andrews, the film also stars Anthony Mackie and Jack O'Connell and premieres later today at the festival.

Kendall Jenner stunned on the red carpet in a billowing white dress Saturday (20 MAY 2017) at the Cannes Film Festival as she followed Kristen Stewart and the cast of Palme d'Or nominee "120 Beats Per Minute" up the famous steps of the Palais des Festivals.

Stewart – who seemed more reluctant to pose for the world's press photographers - was premiering her directorial debut, a short film called "Come Swim," starring Josh Kaye.

Showing as part of the 70th anniversary celebrations at the Festival, the tale uses both impressionistic and realist portraits to make up a diptych of one man's day.

She was followed by director Robin Campillo and the cast of his Palme d'Or nominated drama, "120 Beats Per Minute," for its official festival premiere.

Set in the early 1990s, the French AIDS drama has quickly joined the shortlist of favorites to win the coveted award.

One of its stars, Nahuel Perez Biscayart, was also singled out for his moving performance as an HIV-positive young man who is drawn to action.

Co-star Arnaud Valois plays a newcomer to the activist group, who falls for him.

The film's docu-drama retelling of that painful period, combined with a burgeoning spirit of unity for the gay community, earned it some of the best reviews of the festival thus far. Vanity Fair called the film "a vital new gay classic."

Campillo, himself, was an ACT UP militant activist in the '90s and had long wanted to turn his experience — one of both tragedy and inspiration — into a film.

Kristen Stewart was greeted by crowds of screaming fans as she arrived at the Venice International Film Festival Friday (30 AUGUST 2019).

She's here to promote new political thriller "Seberg," which is showing out of competition.

The film dramatizes how the F.B.I.'s COINTELPRO surveillance program targeted New Wave movie star Jean Seberg (Stewart) after she provided financial support to civil rights groups, including the Black Panther Party.

An internal FBI memo detailed how the agency set out to "neutralize" Seberg by leaking information about her political affiliations and rumors about her pregnancy, aware that its actions would likely "cause her embarrassment and serve to cheapen her image with the general public."

Directed by Benedict Andrews, the film also stars Anthony Mackie and Jack O'Connell and premieres later today at the festival.

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West Hollywood, 24 April 2019

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart, actress:

"The movie is about navigating your story and how you want to tell it and how you want people to perceive you and kind of not necessarily understanding that or having articulated those things to yourself yet - or at least for my half of the story, in Savannah's sort of story of discovery and identity. So I think being thrust into such a kind of vicious celebrity whatever you like. How would you describe it like being thrust into it into the center of something so frenetic and crazy and demanding is interesting when someone is actually just coming of age themselves. And also considering it's about a person who's pretending to be somebody that they're not but actually becoming closer to who they might be on the inside - and then having people criticize that and calling it out as being a lie even though that's true it is a lie, sometimes, sometimes there's a lot of truth to things that are a little more gray for other people. And that's a more Laura question for Laura Albert. But you know Savannah alongside her was kind of going through her own version of that."

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3. Trailer excerpt: "J.T. LeRoy"

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West Hollywood, 24 April 2019

4. SOUNDBITE (English) Laura Dern, actress:

"I think it's beautiful that simultaneously there are two different trajectories in this coming of age story - that we have one narrative which is a more traditional coming of age story. As you said it's everyone can relate to - which is who am I? How do I want to identify? Why is the world projecting onto me who I'm supposed to be? Can't I find my own story? And someone else who's already been living this life. Where from I believe from Laura's perspective - being who she is isn't an option. It's certainly not a safe option. So as she's trying to come more to the truth, I'm grabbing for every other that I can be to hide my truth inside of it - because then I can present who I am. I can even tell you exactly what happened to me in this disguise because you're not going to allow me to be me. But for her, my generation, that's pretty much accurate. And even luckily in just these two different generations, there's been enough of a shift that a coming of age story would look different than if it had been told just 20 years ago and hopefully will be that much different. I mean as you said it's that much different to us since we made the movie and Savannah identified as she has to now and she identifies as they - we're learning from her as she grows and they grow into their own comfort with how they want to identify. And so who knows what then our children's connection to identity will be, and comfort."

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5. Trailer excerpt: "J.T. LeRoy"

KRISTEN STEWART AND LAURA DERN STAR IN 'J.T. LEROY'

Kristen Stewart and Laura Dern star in the bio-pic "J.T. LeRoy," about a notorious literary hoax in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

Stewart plays a young woman named Samantha Knoop who pretends to be a celebrated male author, but who is actually the sister-in-law of the real author, Laura Albert.

Dern plays Albert, a San Francisco writer.

"The movie is about navigating your story and how you want to tell it and how you want people to perceive you and kind of not necessarily understanding that or having articulated those things to yourself yet - or at least for my half of the story, in Savannah's sort of story of discovery and identity," Stewart said. "Being thrust into it into the center of something so frenetic and crazy and demanding is interesting when someone is actually just coming of age themselves. And also considering it's about a person who's pretending to be somebody that they're not but actually becoming closer to who they might be on the inside - and then having people criticize that and calling it out as being a lie even though that's true it is a lie, sometimes, sometimes there's a lot of truth to things that are a little more gray for other people. And that's a more Laura question for Laura Albert. But you know Savannah alongside her was kind of going through her own version of that."

Dern has empathy for the real-life woman that she plays in the film, saying she felt compelled to hide her true identity.

"Being who she is isn't an option. It's certainly not a safe option. So as she's trying to come more to the truth, I'm grabbing for every other that I can be to hide my truth inside of it - because then I can present who I am," she said. "I can even tell you exactly what happened to me in this disguise because you're not going to allow me to be me. But for her, my generation, that's pretty much accurate. And even luckily in just these two different generations, there's been enough of a shift that a coming of age story would look different than if it had been told just 20 years ago and hopefully will be that much different. I mean as you said it's that much different to us since we made the movie and Savannah identified as she has to now and she identifies as they - we're learning from her as she grows and they grow into their own comfort with how they want to identify. And so who knows what then our children's connection to identity will be, and comfort."

"J.T. LeRoy" is now playing in theatres and is available through video-on-demand services.

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Famous faces turned out to see Karl Lagerfeld's last full collection for Chanel, Tuesday (5 MARCH 2019)

Kirsten Stewart, Janelle Monae, Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell and Monica Bellucci were just some of the celebrities who attended the alpine themed show at the Grand Palais as part of Paris Fashion Week.

Lagerfeld, who died on 19 February 2019, was the leading designer at Paris' family-owned power-house Chanel the early 1980s.

Glamour reigns at the Cannes Film Festival, but this year's most memorable fashion moment might have been Kristen Stewart ditching her heels to go barefoot on the red carpet at the premiere of Spike Lee's "BlacKkKlansman," in what many people speculate was an act of rebellion against the unofficial formalwear rules at Cannes.

Other celebrities made statements but more along the lines of fashion statements.

Cate Blanchett wore a Givenchy black jumpsuit to the star-sudded "Capharnaum" premiere and a floor length tiered rainbow skirt with a black turtleneck open back top to another event.

Feathers, sequins, lace, chiffon, beads and crystals embellished many of the outfits and of course diamonds adorned many of the stars as they walked the red carpet at the 71st annual Cannes Film Festival. The winner of the Palme d'Or will be announced Saturday and decided by a nine-person jury led by Blanchett. There are 21 films competing.

The 2018 Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the jury for its main competition.

It was announced Tuesday (17 APRIL 18) that filmmakers Ava DuVernay and Denis Villeneuve and actors Kristen Stewart and Lea Seydoux will be on the jury at the 71st Cannes Film Festival.

The jury, which includes five women and four men, and seven nationalities from five continents, also includes Russian writer-director Andrei Zvyagintsev, Burundian songwriter, composer and singer Khadja Nin, filmmaker Robert Guediguian and Chinese actor Chang Chen.

Cate Blanchett will reside as president over the jury, which will decide the winner of this year's coveted Palme d'Or - the festival's top prize.

The Cannes Film Festival will take place from May 8-19 in the south of France.

"It's a bit of a road trip from Los Angeles to Las Vegas," said Scott before the show. "I was thinking about all those kind of archetypes, that Americana, that kind of route 66 and the dusty gas stations and the hot rods and pinup girls and Playboy playmates and kind of this kind of vibe that kind of unites us between this highway. And so I was thinking about that and thinking about, yeah, Americana and maybe a little bit about, in a way, we are having Americana slip from us in a lot of people's hearts because of the administration and people feel like it's being jeopardized. So maybe it became more urgent to me to show my love to my country that I love so much and kind of some of the pop culture that I love about it."

"Jeremy is just a creative man. He's passionate about what he does and he follows, you know, the rhythm to his own drum and I love that," said Kerr before hitting the runway in a denim patchwork skirt suit.

"I love Vegas. Vegas is great for a hot three days. I have got the Vegas buffets down. So next time you go, give me a call. I've been to all of them," said model Ashley Graham, who sat front row.

Scott, who took aim at President Donald Trump during his February show in New York, decided to let politics take a backseat to positivity.

"You know, I think also I realize that it is very important for me to keep bringing joy and light and happiness and a reprise from the negativity that is a constant onslaught in the news, in the media. And you know so much about what's going on and it's depressing and it's overwhelming. So I think more now than ever I do realize it's important for me to always bring cheer and happiness and joy even if I still can sneak a message in there," he said.

"We are all driving to Vegas and we're all getting cowboy hats and we're gonna have a fun time on a road trip!" she said after the show.

Los Angeles, 8 June 2017

1. Wide of runway

2. Close of neon sign

3. Wide of backstage

4. Medium of Stella Maxwell getting hair and makeup done

5. Zoom out on Miranda Kerr

6. SOUNDBITE (English) Miranda Kerr, model:

"Well Jeremy is just a creative man. He's passionate about what he does and he follows, you know, the rhythm to his own drum and I love that."

7. Wide of Kristen Stewart and Stella Maxwell backstage

8. Walking shot of Kristen Stewart and Stella Maxwell

9. Medium shot Ashley Graham poses with Hailey Baldwin

10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ashley Graham, model:

"I love Vegas. Vegas is great for a hot three days. I have got the Vegas buffets down. So next time you go, give me a call. I've been to all of them."

11. Medium of Erika Jayne

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Diplo, recording artist:

"I'm just a Jeremy Scott fanboy. I love everything he does. If there's ever a fashion show in LA I can make that one so I'm always going to come."

13. Wide shot Jeremy Scott poses with models

14. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeremy Scott, designer:

"It's a bit of a road trip from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. I was thinking about all those kind of archetypes, that Americana, that kind of route 66 and the dusty gas stations and the hot rods and pinup girls and Playboy playmates and kind of this kind of vibe that kind of unites us between this highway. And so I was thinking about that and thinking about, yeah, Americana and maybe a little bit about, in a way, we are having Americana slip from us in a lot of people's hearts because of the administration and people feel like it's being jeopardized. So maybe it became more urgent to me to show my love to my country that I love so much and kind of some of the pop culture that I love about it."

15. Wide shot Jeremy Scott poses with Courtney Love

16. SOUNDBITE (English) Jeremy Scott, designer:

"You know, I think also I realize that it is very important for me to keep bringing joy and light and happiness and a reprise from the negativity that is a constant onslaught in the news, in the media. And you know so much about what's going on and it's depressing and it's overwhelming. So I think more now than ever I do realize it's important for me to always bring cheer and happiness and joy even if I still can sneak a message in there."

17. Zoom in on Sarah Hyland, Vanessa Hudgens and Kate Beckinsale posing for photographs before show

1. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristen Stewart, actress - on why she decided to take on Donald Trump and be so open about her sexuality while hosting "Saturday Night Live":

"No, it was just like, we just wanted to make the monologue funny and that's kind of what was like going on. I had been considering doing it for a number of years. I was just so intimidated for so long. It really is like, it's being a part of the most epic trust fall game that you've ever been a part of and I don't know, I just sort of was like ready to ... I just couldn't say no anymore. I was like 'Yeah, I want to be a part of that. I don't want to like miss out on that.' So even if I completely mess it up, it's like 'Oh at least I did it."